We have been working to develop an enzymatic assay for the alcohol 2-methyl-3-buten-2-ol (232-MB), which is produced and emitted by certain pines. To this end we have isolated the soil bacterium Pseudomonas putida MB-1, which uses 232-MB as a sole carbon source. Strain MB-1 contains inducible 3-methyl-2-buten-1-ol (321-MB) and 3-methyl-2-buten-1-al dehydrogenases, suggesting that 232-MB is meta...

C. Hess, L. Wilson, G. A. Neumann, D. E. Smith, and M. T. Zuber. Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, USA, [email protected]. Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, Lancaster, LA1 4YQ, UK. Solar System Exploration Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences, MIT,...

We address in this study the problem of estimating standard IR model parameters on new collections for which no relevance judgements are available. To do so, we rely on past collections with relevance judgements and introduce a new, collection independent query representation. From this representation as well as from past collections, we learn a regression function linking queries to parameter ...

Le Mouélic , C. Sotin, J-P. Combe, L. Ledeit , A. Gendrin, J. Mustard , J-P. Bibring, Y. Langevin, B. Gondet, P. Pinet, Laboratoire de Planétologie et Géodynamique, 2 rue de la houssinière, 44300 Nantes, France, Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, RI, 3 Institut d’Astrophysique Spatiale, Orsay, France, 4 UMR 5562, Observatoire Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France. [steph...

The effects of different temperature and time conditions during retorting of canned cat food on physicochemical characteristics and palatability were examined. For this purpose, lacquer cans containing an unprocessed loaf-type commercial cat food were heated in a pressurised retorting system at three specified temperature-time profiles (113°C/232 min, 120°C/103 min and 127°C/60 min) to equal a ...